Labor warns Turnbull government has made $3 billion of digital ‘stuff-ups’

The federal government risks making the same old expensive mistakes as it spends nearly $10 billion a year trying to bring the its IT infrastructure up to date, Labor has warned.

The opposition’s digital economy spokesman Ed Husic says there are insufficient safeguards in place to ensure taxpayers will get proper value for money on the spend, which has grown from $6 billion just two years ago.